Machine Learning Engineer: Imitation and Reinforcement Learning for Robotics

Join the team bringing autonomy to the built world

At Bedrock, we're moving AI out of the lab and onto real job sites. Our team includes veterans who helped launch Waymo, scaled Segment to a $3.2B acquisition, and grew Uber Freight to $5B in revenue. We retrofit the heavy equipment contractors already own, starting with excavators, so experienced crews can safely take on more projects and deliver more of the critical infrastructure our society needs.

In August 2026, Bedrock-equipped excavators began doing fully autonomous, paid work on live commercial job sites. We've more than doubled our customer base since 2025, and our machines now work with contractors across the South, Midwest, and Mid-Atlantic

In October 2026, we raised a $600M Series C co-led by CapitalG and Emergence Capital, bringing our total funding to nearly $1B. We're using it to put more autonomous machines to work, build the field and operations teams behind every deployment, and expand into new machine types and job-site tasks.

This is where algorithms meet steel-toed boots. You'll work alongside construction veterans and world-class engineers to solve physical-world problems that simulations can't touch. If you're ready to do meaningful work on hard problems, we'd love to have you join us.

The Mission:

We’re looking for a Machine Learning Engineer with a focus on behavior learning, specifically data-driven behavior policies and robust data infrastructure. In this role, you'll be responsible for developing and scaling state-of-the-art learning architectures, while also building the data systems that make these models reliable, scalable, and reproducible in production.

What You’ll Do:

• Design, train, validate, and launch models for behavior cloning and reinforcement learning

• Build and maintain data ingestion, labeling, and management pipelines to ensure high-quality training datasets

• Build metrics to evaluate model performance in open loop, simulation, and in the real world

• Collaborate with simulation, systems, and infrastructure teams to integrate ML models into real-world autonomous systems

• Deploy and debug these models in real-world environments, addressing practical issues such as latency, hardware constraints, and system integration

What We’re Looking For:

• 3+ years of practical experience applying Machine Learning with Deep Learning frameworks, such as PyTorch/Tensorflow/JAX to solve real-world problems

• 3+ years of professional experience building, deploying, and maintaining Machine Learning models in production environments

• Familiarity with recent literature and methods in learned behavior policies

• Practical experience in behavior cloning and/or reinforcement learning

• Bonus: Experience with diffusion policies, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, or related technologies

• Bonus: Published work in conferences such as ICRA, IROS, CoRL, CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, ICML, NeurIPS, …

Bedrock Robotics is an Equal Opportunity Employer

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic.

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